Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
16 pending office actions • 13 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
NOF Corporation has 16 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio spans 16 examiners and 13 art units, indicating broad examiner distribution and a smaller but still substantial set of technical groups. The alignment between pending matters and examiners means that repeated examiner treatment is not a central feature of the supplied record.
DELCOTTO, GREGORY R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should emphasize art-unit coordination for recurring technical issues while preserving individual examiner analysis.
The 13 art units support grouping by subject matter, but their breadth makes a uniform response strategy impractical. Centralized tracking can help identify common issues without replacing matter-level review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 8 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (19%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (25%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1 | 51.1% | +44.1% |
| DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1 | 54.1% | +75.7% |
| PALLAY, MICHAEL B | 1 | 55.8% | +33.8% |
| HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1 | 50.7% | +39.2% |
| HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1 | 48.7% | +35.4% |
| BOYLE, ROBERT C | 1 | 69.7% | -2.8% |
| ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 1 | 51.8% | +27.5% |
| LING, DORIS | 1 | 25.0% | +27.3% |
| WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1 | 80.1% | -4.6% |
| PAUL, SHREYA | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573698 | CONTACT LENS AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAID LENS | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — |
| 18572311 | RELEASE AGENT FOR CIRCUIT BOARD RESIN FILM AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR CIRCUIT BOARD | PAUL, SHREYA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17760181 | Agent For Treating Or Preventing Pancreatic Fistula | CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S | 28d |
| 18869004 | OIL FOR COSMETIC AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18695576 | POLYMER FOR WATER-REPELLENT, WATER-REPELLENT COMPOSITION, AND WATER REPELLENT-TREATED PRODUCT | BOYLE, ROBERT C | — |
| 18683446 | ANTIFOGGING AGENT COMPOSITION, AND ANTIFOGGING ARTICLE | LING, DORIS | — |
| 18263416 | SENSITIZER FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION, COMPOSITION FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION, AND TEST KIT | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19132073 | FILM-FORMING AUXILIARY AGENT FOR CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION, COATING SOLUTION FOR CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION, METAL OXIDE FILM, AND FILM-FORMING METHOD FOR METAL OXIDE FILM | MELLOTT, JAMES M | — |
| 19112029 | SOLUTION FOR CONTACT LENSES | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | — |
| 18869004 | OIL FOR COSMETIC AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18913388 | KETAL-TYPE RELEASABLE POLYOXYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF AND KETAL-TYPE RELEASABLE POLYOXYETHYLENE CONJUGATE | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — |
| 18704606 | TREATMENT FLUID FOR SOFT CONTACT LENS | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | — |
| 18683917 | OIL FOR COSMETICS, AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | — |
| 18683446 | ANTIFOGGING AGENT COMPOSITION, AND ANTIFOGGING ARTICLE | LING, DORIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 3 |
| 1764 | 2 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1627 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19132073 | FILM-FORMING AUXILIARY AGENT FOR CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION, COATING SOLUTION FOR CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION, METAL OXIDE FILM, AND FILM-FORMING METHOD FOR METAL OXIDE FILM | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1759 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19112029 | SOLUTION FOR CONTACT LENSES | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18869004 | OIL FOR COSMETIC AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | 1617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18913388 | KETAL-TYPE RELEASABLE POLYOXYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF AND KETAL-TYPE RELEASABLE POLYOXYETHYLENE CONJUGATE | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1627 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18704606 | TREATMENT FLUID FOR SOFT CONTACT LENS | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18695576 | POLYMER FOR WATER-REPELLENT, WATER-REPELLENT COMPOSITION, AND WATER REPELLENT-TREATED PRODUCT | BOYLE, ROBERT C | 1764 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18683917 | OIL FOR COSMETICS, AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 1612 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18683446 | ANTIFOGGING AGENT COMPOSITION, AND ANTIFOGGING ARTICLE | LING, DORIS | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18573698 | CONTACT LENS AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAID LENS | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18572311 | RELEASE AGENT FOR CIRCUIT BOARD RESIN FILM AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR CIRCUIT BOARD | PAUL, SHREYA | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18458354 | REACTION COMPOSITION FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION AND NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION METHOD USING SAME | JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 1682 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18263416 | SENSITIZER FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION, COMPOSITION FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION, AND TEST KIT | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18267163 | RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR HOT AIR CROSS-LINKING, CROSS-LINKED RUBBER, AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF CROSS-LINKED RUBBER | AMATO, ELIZABETH KATHRYN | 1762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18256526 | SENSITIZER FOR IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC ASSAYS, AND ASSAY | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 1619 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18176420 | ALKYLENE OXIDE DERIVATIVES, WETTING AGENT, SOLUBILIZING AGENT, AND SOLUBILIZING COMPOSITION | WARD, PAUL V | 1622 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 17760181 | Agent For Treating Or Preventing Pancreatic Fistula | CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S | 1625 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Aug 04, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNOF Corporation has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 13 art units and 16 examiners.
James M Mellott has the most, with 1 of NOF Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
